The Advocate [Baton Rouge, LA]
26 September 2019
Smiley: LSU's new 'Fat Dog'
offense
Smiley Anders
[…] Kirk Guidry adds to our collection of
"computer illiteracy" stories: "When I worked for the Department
of Education, I would travel around the state doing technology training for
teachers and administrators. While I was conducting a training in north
Louisiana, a teacher raised her hand and said that a information box had
appeared on her screen. Without missing a beat in my presentation, I told her
to press any key and it would go away. After I gave them their assignment, she
once again raised her hand, and said she could not find the 'any' key."
[…]
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KAPP-TV [Yakima, WA]
27 September 2019
Yakima woman claims she found
blood from needles in Walmart bathroom's toilet paper
YAKIMA, Wash. - A Yakima woman posted a photo of
toilet paper rolls with what look to be spots of blood to Facebook. The post
has since been shared nearly 9,000 times. Nicole Medina said when she went into
the bathroom at the West Valley Walmart, she noticed the toilet paper container
was open and saw "red marks all over." She said she thinks it's from
people shooting up in the stall and using the rolls of toilet paper to wipe
clean their needles. […]
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History News
Network
29 September 2019
Myth vs History: A Study of
Vietnam War Stories and Journalism
Jerry Lembcke
In 2007, I presented a paper on the myth of spat-on
Vietnam veterans at a Queensland University conference in Brisbane, Australia.
The paper drew on the history of homecomings experienced by U.S veterans of the
war; it was well received by the attending historians, most of whom were
Australians. In the Q&A that followed, however, assertions were made that
the Australian case was different: Australian returnees, it was said, were met with great hostility and even
acts of spitting by the antiwar movement. My surprise at hearing that claim was
then surpassed by the acceptance of its merit by the roomful of scholars. With
the unspoken certainty of something everyone-knows-is-true filling the room,
the story of spat-on Australian veterans went unchallenged into the end of the
session. […]
[The rest of the article is a favorable review of Mark
Dapin’s Australia’s Vietnam: Myth vs.
History (2019), which covers the spat-on veteran and other topics.]
